Filter By Subjects
Automobile engineers United States Biography Automobile industry and trade United States Biography Automobile industry and trade United States History Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Ford Motor Company History Ford, Henry 1863-1947 Ford, Henry 1863-1947 Juvenile literature Industrialists United States Biography Industrialists United States Biography Juvenile literature United StatesFilter By Genres
bibliography Biographies Biographies. biography Biography. History. Juvenile works.Filter By Subjects
Automobile engineers United States Biography Automobile industry and trade United States Biography Automobile industry and trade United States History Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Ford Motor Company History Ford, Henry 1863-1947 Ford, Henry 1863-1947 Juvenile literature Industrialists United States Biography Industrialists United States Biography Juvenile literature United StatesFilter By Genres
bibliography Biographies Biographies. biography Biography. History. Juvenile works.Davis, Lynn
Summary: "The car changed travel forever. Henry Ford started a car-making revolution. Kids can read this book to find out how Ford transformed America with his cars. They will learn how many cars Ford made before the Model T Ford"--Publisher's website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FORGreenleaf, William
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1961
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 GreenleafKulling, Monica.
Summary: Relates the excitement caused by Henry Ford as he drove the "horseless carriage" he built, particularly when he decided to win a race to get money to build a new car that anyone could afford.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.7 KULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KulSummary: Discusses the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford, a man who changed the American way of life in the 1900s by inventing the Model T and founding the Ford Motor Company.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Mitchell, Don
Summary: A biography of Henry Ford, the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man's toy into affordable necessity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FORSnow, Richard F.
Summary: "From an acclaimed popular historian comes a fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T--the machine that defined the dawning age in America. Every century or so, our republic has been changed by a new technology: 170 years ago it was the railroad; today it's the microprocessor. But in the early twentieth century it was the gasoline-combustion...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, HENRY SNOBaldwin, Neil
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.762 BALBrinkley, Douglas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, HENRY BRIBaime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Summary: Chronicles Detroit's dramatic transition from an automobile manufacturing center to a highly efficient producer of World War II airplanes, citing the essential role of Edsel Ford's rebellion against his father, Henry Ford.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 BAICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 BAICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.531 BAIWik, Reynold M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1972
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 WIKWatts, Steven
Summary: Henry Ford, a major architect of modern America, has lived on in the imagination of his fellow citizens as an enduring figure of fascination, an inimitable individual, a controversial personality, and a social visionary from the moment his Model T brought the automobile to the masses and triggered the consumer revolution. Ford first made the automobile affordable, but grew skeptical of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.7 WATBryan, Ford R. (Ford Richardson)
Summary: Describes people and interests that colored the life of Henry Ford I. Part I encompasses Ford's encounters with famous people such as George Washington Carver, Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, and others. Part 2 details the branches of the Ford family tree. Part 3 addresses Ford's mechanical pursuits including the electric car, speedboat Miss Dearborn, and robot engines. Parts 5 and 6 detail...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ford Books 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, HENRY BRYMarquis, Samuel S.
Contents: Introduction to new edition / David L. Lewis -- Introduction to Henry Ford: an interpretation -- The Ford halo -- The art of self-advertising -- A dream that came true -- The Ford fortune -- Some elements of success -- Mental traits and characteristics -- "Just kids" -- Behind a Chinese wall -- Henry Ford and the church -- Henry Ford, Dives, Lazarus and others -- The Ford charities -- The Ford...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD,HENRY MARLacey, Robert.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1986
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 LACDavis, Wes
Summary: "The epic road trips-and surprising friendship-of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3048 DAVBaime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.72 BAIHager, Thomas
Summary: During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021